Keith Cowing

NASA Watch is a website blog which provides insider information and commentary about the United States space program and the U.S. government agency, NASA. The first posting was in March, 1996. Cowing is a strong supporter of human spaceflight.{{cite web|last1=Crittenden|first1=Jules|date=October 29, 2000|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/62997952.html?dids=62997952:62997952&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+29%2C+2000&author=Jules+Crittenden&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Huge+space+station+set+to+shine&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131184730/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/62997952.html?dids=62997952:62997952&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+29,+2000&author=Jules+Crittenden&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Huge+space+station+set+to+shine&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|title=Huge space station set to shine|publisher=Boston Herald|accessdate=November 14, 2011}} Cowing started the website when Daniel Goldin was administrator of NASA and at that time expressed harsh criticism of Goldin's policies. The inciting event for Keith was the mass layoffs in the transition from Space Station Freedom to the International Space Station.{{cite web|last=Cowing|first=Keith|date=June 9, 2010|url=http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2010/06/space-station-f.html|title=Space Station Freedom Deja Vu All Over Again|publisher=Nasa Watch|accessdate=November 14, 2011}} For several years, NASA refused to accredit Cowing as a journalist and denied him access to NASA media events. Cowing was eventually granted full press accreditation.{{cite web|last=Godin|first=Mary Ellen|date=December 12, 1999|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=38z6pN3vtwoC&dat=19991212&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=Keeping an Eye on NASA|publisher=The Record-Journal|accessdate=November 14, 2011}}

Cowing was a firm supporter of Goldin's successor as administrator, Sean O'Keefe, appointed by George W. Bush. Cowing also obtained exclusive first-hand information about the genesis of the Vision for Space Exploration, detailed in the book New Moon Rising which Cowing wrote with Frank Sietzen.{{cite book|title=New moon rising : the making of America's new space vision and the remaking of NASA|publisher=Apogee Books|date=2004|last1=Sietzen|first1=Frank|last2=Cowing|first2=Keith|isbn=978-1894959124|oclc=56140988}}

When Michael Griffin was NASA administrator, the relationship between NASA Watch and NASA seemed to have been a more confrontational one. Cowing, as well as other space program insiders, commented negatively about a return to Goldin-style management practices under Griffin.{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0615/p01s01-usgn.html|title=NASA changes to run deep|date=June 15, 2005|last=Sappenfield|first=Mark|publisher=The Christian Science Monitor|accessdate=February 5, 2014}} Cowing dubbed Monday, June 13, 2005 as Black Monday when many NASA personnel were sent reassignment letters.{{cite web|last=Cowing|first=Keith|date=June 13, 2005|url=http://nasawatch.com/archives/2005/06/purge-update-1.html|title=Purge Update|publisher=NASA Watch|accessdate=November 16, 2011}}

• Phillips, Robert W.; Cowing, Keith (1993). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3628319 "Space Station Freedom: A Unique Laboratory for Gravitational Biology Research."] (Article.) Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Volume 96, no. 1/2, p. 80-86. OCLC Number: 480268661.
• Cowing, Keith (2002). [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49716292 Astrobiology has arrived]. National Space Society. OCLC Number: 49716292
• Sietzen (Jr.), Frank; Cowing, Keith L. (January 14, 2004). [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=915 "Beyond the Moon: Inside Bush's space plan (Part 1 of 3)."] (Article.) [http://www.spaceref.com Space Ref] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121205064450/http://www.spaceref.com/ |date=2012-12-05 }}.
• Dick, Steven J.; Cowing, Keith; et al. (2005). [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68963879 Risk and exploration: earth, sea and the stars: NASA administrator's symposium, September 26-29, 2004, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). OCLC Number: 68963879

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